Details on House races in which the outcome remained undecided: - New Mexico, 1st District: Republican Rep. Heather Wilson led Democrat Patricia Madrid by just over 1,100 votes out of more than 200,000 cast. Officials hoped to finish counting roughly 1,500 remaining votes by late Friday. - North Carolina, 8th District: Rep. Robin Hayes, a Republican, led Democrat Larry Kissell by about 450 votes. About 1,500 provisional ballots remained to be counted. County election boards met Friday to count provisional ballots and hoped to certify results. - Ohio, 2nd District: Rep. Jean Schmidt, a Republican who called decorated Vietnam veteran Rep. John Murtha a coward, was ahead of Democrat Victoria Wulsin by about 2,800 votes. Workers were to begin counting as many as 10,000 provisional and absentee ballots next week. ...
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 Jury Unable to Reach Unanimous Verdict in Hostage-Taking Case of Colombia Rebel Leader |
A jury said Friday that it was unable to come to a unanimous verdict in the hostage-taking and terror case of Latin American rebel leader Ricardo Palmera and asked a federal judge what to do. Palmera is accused of plotting to keep three Americans hostage after their plane crashed in Colombia. He is charged with hostage-taking, conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists. U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan told jurors to break for lunch and return at 1:30 p.m. EST. They had just began deliberating on Thursday. Palmera, who is better known by his nom de guerre Simon Trinidad, was extradited in late 2004 after his capture in Ecuador. He faced up to 30 years in prison, the maximum allowed under the extradition treaty between Colombia and the United States. ...
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| Fighting Breaks Out After Iraq Hijacking Fighting breaks out in area of Iraq where 4 U.S. security contractors taken hostage |
British ground forces and U.S. military helicopters fought with gunmen Friday in southern Iraq where four American security contractors and their Austrian co-worker were abducted in a convoy hijacking.The Austrian was found dead and one of the Americans was found gravely wounded, an Iraqi police officer said. The three Americans who were among the five Crescent Security Group employees taken hostage remained missing in the largely Sunni area.Nine employees from Asian countries such as India, Pakistan and the Philippines were released by the captors, the company said.Capt. Tane Dunlop, a spokesman for British forces who were fighting gunmen in the area where the kidnapping took place, said in a telephone interview from Basra that the hijacking occurred at 1 p.m. Thursday in Safwan, an Iraqi city near the Kuwait border. He said the convoy was coming from Kuwait....
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| Al-Qaida 'planted information to encourage US invasion' |
A senior al-Qaida operative deliberately planted information to encourage the US to invade Iraq, a double agent who infiltrated the network and spied for western intelligence agencies claimed last night. The claim was made by Omar Nasiri, a pseudonym for a Moroccan who says he spent seven years working for European security and intelligence agencies, including MI5. He said Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, who ran training camps in Afghanistan, told his US interrogators that al-Qaida had been training Iraqis. Libi was captured in November 2001 and taken to Egypt where he was allegedly tortured. Asked on BBC2's Newsnight whether Libi or other jihadists would have told the truth if they were tortured, Nasiri replies: "Never". Asked whether he thought Libi had deliberately planted information to get the US to fight Iraq, Nasiri said: "Exactly". Nasiri said Libi "needed the conflict in Iraq because ...
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Editor - 10:12:00 11-17-06
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| Man arrested in shooting of 5 people, 2 fatally |
A man was arrested Thursday after a series of shootings that left two people dead and three others wounded within a span of 10 minutes.All the shootings were in a three- to four-block area on the city's west side, Detroit police spokesman James Tate said. The shootings were believed to be random, police said.Killed were Arthur James Smith, 49, and Othelia Fry, 58, both of Detroit, police spokeswoman Yvette Walker said.Fry was shot as she sat in a vehicle in front of a day care facility, Tate said. There were no children at the day care at the time, and the shooting didn't appear to be related to the facility, he said.Smith and a man identified by the Detroit Free Press as Elton Ash, 51, were shot minutes later about a block away. Shortly afterward, Dennis Anderson, 49, was wounded in his backyard and James L. Brown, 50, also was shot, the newspaper reported on its Web site....
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Editor - 10:07:00 11-17-06
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| Tense stand-off between Chinese villagers and police |
Farmers and fishermen have reportedly taken eight Communist party officials hostage in a fresh flare-up of tension in Dongzhou village, the site of the most murderous crackdown by Chinese police in recent memory.Less than a year after paramilitary forces shot and killed at least three protesters, villagers are once again locked into a stand-off with the authorities over the arrest of a local activist. According to Radio Free Asia, several hundred police have moved to the outskirts of Dongzhou, near Shanwei port in the wealthy southern province of Guangdong. They began moving in yesterday afternoon and positioned themselves along the highway. The number grew larger today, one villager told the radio station. "The police at the village entrance don't dare enter," another resident surnamed Huang told Reuters....
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